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Karen Blough

Professor of Art

Karen Blough joined the SUNY Plattsburgh art faculty in 1999. Prof. Blough received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1995 with a doctoral thesis entitled Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Codex Barberini latinus 711: A Late Tenth-Century Illustrated Gospel Lectionary from Reichenau. She has regularly presented her work on early medieval manuscript illumination and female abbatial patronage in the Middle Ages at several professional conferences, including among others the Medieval Academy, the St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, the International Medieval Congress at Leeds (Great Britain), and the Annual International Conference on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo (Michigan). Prof Blough has recently served as a peer reviewer for the journals Gesta and Speculum and for the Haskins Society Journal, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Ashgate Publishing, and Wadsworth Publishing. She teaches courses on ancient, medieval, and Renaissance art, book art, Latin American art, and, as the first recipient of the Rabin Fellowship in Judaic Perspectives, Jewish art in antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance.

Education

Ph.D., Rutgers University

Teaching Areas

Ancient Art

Medieval Art

Renaissance Art

Jewish Art

Latin American Art

Art of the Book

Areas of Specialization

Medieval art

Manuscript illumination

Ivory carving

Metalwork

Issues of patronage

Recent Publications

Blough, K. (2016). The Lance of St Maurice as a component of the early Ottonian campaign against paganism. Early Medieval Europe, 24(3), 338–361